Up East Side Galleries

Marian Goodman Gallery
24 W 57th St, New York, NY 10019
Hiroshi Sugimoto. – Past Presence

Hiroshi focuses his work on photographing well-known pieces of previous Masters of Modernism using an optical illusion in which the viewer cannot see the image with a sharp edges. Instead, it appears out of focus and slightly indistinct. His work is minimalist and conceptual.

We can explore the notions of space and time, as well as imagination and reality . It’s almost a study in art history about the most explorative pieces of art through the pasts decades but representing the concrete in an abstract form that seeks the unconscious or meditative state of the mind. From Brancusi, Picasso and Matisse, through Magritte, Duchamp, Mondrian, to Giacometti, Warhol and Johns, each picture depicts an object that appears to float in an idealized, opaque space challenging the viewer through the blurring of the focal point creates a different image and makes us remember and identify the images from the masters of modernity.

Hiroshi said “The deliberate blurring of the image was an attempt on my part to recreate the initial inspiration as it first emerged in the mind of the architect…..”

Meeting with Jessie Washburne-Harris, Director of Marian Goodman. She bcame a director at Marian Goodman gallery in 2014.

We had a wonderful conversation with Jessie being surrounded by all the gigantic Hiroshi photographs developed and mounted with perfection. Each photo is for sale for $200,000.

She told us how Sugimoto got the inspiration to do this new body of photographs, and it was when he was invited from the MOMA in 2013 to participate in a photographic commission. While photographing outdoors, he encountered a Giacometti sculpture, which became the inspiration for this work.

She told us about the owner Marian Goodman that is 83 years old and still runs the business with passion. She is one of the oldest women in the art business. Her gallery is one of the five Mega galleries in America and she curated all the exhibition with her detailed and specific taste. She also created a special club that the artists want to be part of. The way she fosters art creates a very special community among the artist society. They also have galleries in London and Paris but the market in America has provided better results.

Jessie goes to 12 art fairs every year. This is the new way to buy art and to know new artists through the various arts fairs around the world.

The contemporary art is challenging the museums to keep their collections interesting because the art from previous era is becoming limited since all the artists are already dead. Contemporary art is what makes a museum more attractive, in that way The MOMA is in a much better position than MET. Having a gallery is a way to show art for free but the museums usually have you purchase a ticket to get in.

Today the galleries are focused on are big foundations because the foundations have tax benefits and they can purchase and develop a collection as a non profit organization and be tax free. They also sell to other museums abroad, and well known people like the owner of Instagram and so on.

People now are focused on the Anthroposy or our impact in the world, what we are living through.

16 East 55th street
Anton Kern gallery
New York , NY 10022

Aliza Nisenbaum will present Coreografía

Aliza was born in Mexico and lives in New York, she is an activist and painter portrait of individuals and also group of people. Her inspiration comes from a variety of groups, active communities and salsa dancers. I found her work very vivid, full of colors with abstract backgrounds and the portraits exhibited personality and intimacy with the person that was portrayed.

BLUM & POE
19 E 66^th street New York, NY 10065

Henry Taylor
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Henry Taylor paints portraited of colored people from different parts. Could be African American people, sports star, patients in a mental hospital, contemporary politics, American social adversity and also people from his last travel to Senegal in Africa. We can realize that he puts him self in the paints making a closer connecting with the situation depicted. Is a visual collage reflecting a cultural community to which Taylor belongs .Its snapshots of the artist search from his own identity. The expression of the faces were very intriguing with one color background and very loose strokes of the brush.

Petzel Gallery
35 east 67 th street

Stephen Prina English for Foreigners We went to that gallery with a series of litograhs framed all in the same way and with a music playing that was remenicent of a long time ago. It was a different experience